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Peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers needed

"The plain fact is that the planet does not need more 'successful' people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it."

Cameron Penny's poem

If you are lucky in this life,A window will appear on a battlefield between two armies.And when the soldiers look into the windowThey don’t see their enemies.They see themselves as children.And they stop fightingAnd go home and go to sleep. When they wake up, the land is well again.

Cameron Penny's If You Are Lucky in This Life was originally published in the November/December 2001 issue of North American Review. Marie Howe reads his poem in the film Voices in Wartime.